Offenders: Rehabilitation

Ian Lavery: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has spent on research on each prisoner rehabilitation programme in each of the last five years; and which organisation undertook each such research programme.

Jeremy Wright: The term ‘prisoner rehabilitation programmes’ covers a broad range of activity, delivered in prison and through the gate, aimed at the rehabilitation of offenders. A list of external research projects on prisoner rehabilitation programmes, commissioned between 2008-09 and 2012-13, can be viewed in the accompanying table. Research commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and the National Offender Management Service has been included.